The black gem cat frowned and entered the Cherry Blossom Tavern with great worries, thinking about the relationship between the black robes, solar eclipse, and Colma, but no matter how hard it wants to break its head, it can't find any connection between a few nouns.
Looking up, I saw the owner of the tavern.
It was stunned for a moment.
Because today's Colma looks very different from usual, although she is still sitting behind the bar, there is neither an open bottle of rum nor a tarot card in front of her, but reading a book!
That's right, in my impression, this is the first time Zheng Qian saw Colma reading a book.
A few small stars chased each other under the ceiling, scattering a room of silver-white stars, making the witch's silver hair look particularly shining. She pursed her lips, held a quill in her hand, and drew on the book with a serious expression.
"sit."
The witch did not raise her head and gave her concise commands.
The black gem cat climbed onto the bar, sat obediently next to the dim sum dish, stumbled on his neck to try to secretly look at what book the witch was reading, but wherever he saw, all the words on the pages were blurry and could not be seen clearly.
It opened its eyes and worked hard for a while before it realized that this should be some kind of anti-peeping magic, which means that the owner of the tavern did not want it to see what was in the book.
The black gem cat shrank its neck back in disappointment.
It is just an ordinary kitten. When a great wizard tactfully restricts it from doing certain things, it should wisely obey the arrangements of the great wizard.
But after waiting for a long time, the witch was still busy with her affairs. The Black Gem Cat became a little anxious and finally couldn't help asking: "—What happened to those black robes just now?"
"The wizard of the school divination group." The witch answered concisely and clearly without looking up.
"Divine Group? What do the people from the school's divination group look for you?"
"Because I'm the only witness, they need to hunt down clues."
"Witness?" The Black Gem Cat was excited and his ears immediately stood up, feeling as if he was approaching some truth: "What witnesses? What are they hunting for?"
Colma's eyes finally moved away from the book and fell on the little black cat as big as a fist.
"They are chasing Professor Monteria, and I am the last person to see the professor." She said this in a calm tone, completely ignoring the puzzled expression of the Black Gem Cat.
“Chasing Professor Monteria?”
The kitten raised his paws and wiped his ears, thinking he was hallucinating: "Is it the Monteria professor who is another vice dean on the edge? Our Magic Literature Professor?"
"If you don't have other demon-language professors, yes, it's him." The witch gave a positive answer.
The Black Gem Cat fell completely silent.
Although it is essentially a stone and sometimes it is a bit slow to react, it does not mean it is stupid.
After a while, the Black Gem Cat clarified his thoughts and asked the first place he didn't understand: "You...I mean, why are they chasing Professor Monteria?"
"Because he attacked me while the solar eclipse."
Colma didn't seem to worry that these answers would cause any trouble to the Black Gem Cat. Without any perfunctory, he replied carefully: "——Just a few hours ago, the aftermath of our fight almost destroyed the entire No. 33 Gudiao Street... Everything you see now is the result of the school's recovery with magic. The good news is that Professor Monteria may still remember that he was the vice president of the Fringe Academy and did not take serious measures against other North District wizards, so no one died in this conflict."
The black gem cat unconsciously raised his voice and shouted, "Is he crazy? Attacking you? Why?"
Colma looked up and down with interest.
"There are a few guesses, not necessarily correct."
She raised three fingers and bent one by one: "——Maybe he felt that without me, he could become the dean of the Fringe College; maybe he felt that without me, the school would hand him another special configuration; or, he really just came to visit me temporarily tonight, but accidentally lost control."
The first two possibilities are not difficult to understand.
"What does it mean to 'accidentally lose control'?" The black gem cat's voice was a little hoarse, and his body became more and more straight. It vaguely realized something, but it was still not sure.
The witch's mouth curled slightly.
"Just you think." She looked down at the book at hand again, and said in a faint tone: "I remember you worked as an assistant in his lab before. What's his lab's name?"
"High-level Magic Text and Bloodline Research Laboratory."
"Yes...bloodline research. The most dangerous and most easily out of control magic research in the world." The witch sighed long, but never mentioned the possibility that the Black Gem Cat guessed.
crow!
It's a crow!
Professor Monteria is the big crow hiding in school!
The black gem cat roared in his mind, and countless thoughts collided with each other, and finally tore through the hazy veil that had been blocking its eyes. It couldn't wait to bring back the big news and make the guy in the body unable to sleep well all night, but at the same time, it wanted to know the whereabouts of Monteria.
“Where is Professor Monteria now?”
"Of course I hid." The witch shook her head, calmly as if she was talking about other people's affairs: "——He underestimated my true self's degree, so he failed. After such a big disaster, the school must not be able to stay, as for other places..."
She looked up again and looked out of the tavern.
The black gem cat looked out the window along her gaze and finally realized that two moons appeared in the sky tonight. However, the real moon was too dim and small, completely submerged in the glory of another moon.
"...The school is pursuing his whereabouts, but as far as I know, the investigation is still controlled and controlled within a certain range. After all, a great wizard at the level of vice president defected is something that has never happened in the history of the first university. This level of scandal is enough to make the entire alliance mess... Cough cough, cough cough!"
She suddenly coughed violently, and her face turned a little gray.
The black gem cat looked at her worriedly.
"—Are you injured? Do you need to go to the hospital?" Even though he knew that these are nonsense, he couldn't help but say it: "If the money is not enough, I can lend you a little."
The wizards in the North District have always been very poor, which is the consensus of everyone. Colma, who needs to take care of such a big deal, naturally cannot save much money.
This made it doubt whether the witch was here because she had no money.
Coincidentally, someone made several "arms orders" this semester, and his wallet was thick and bulging. Anyway, he didn't need to pay for the Black Gem Cat, so he was naturally generous.